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I've touched on the new SimPrem game before, and now we're a couple of weeks into the season, I thought it was time to meet the teams and see how the draft went. We start with one of the co-founders, John Wright, owner and manager of Oglethorpe FC. What was your strategy going into the draft? As one of the two founding members of the SFP, I felt like I had a decent feel for what I would need going into the draft and perhaps a leg up on the opposition. Last year, I favored players who would receive more guaranteed playing time, only to find my team lacking quality at times. If not for a couple of lucky hits like Robin van Persie and Ben Foster, I probably wouldn't have won the league. This year, I came into the draft favoring quality over quantity. The biggest constraint in the current SFP system is that you are limited to 90 minutes of action per week at 11 team places, just like real football. With 25 players to fill those spots, I knew that each week, I would h...

As I've mentioned before, I'm taking part in the inaugural  SimPrem fantasy league this year, with the draft set to take place on Saturday. I've drawn the third pick and wanted to canvas some opinion on which way you'd go. Let me know below (a) who would be your top three picks and (b) which positions you would target in the early rounds. The scoring system is a little complex but is essentially based on the pl.com game though midfielders earn points based on their team's goals scored/conceded so players from elite teams get a boost in value. I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts . . .

The sun is out, the money is flowing , players are on strike and fantasy football is on the horizon. Before the new prices come out and we scramble to attach value to the likes of Gervinho or Adel Taarabt, let's take a quick look back at some of highlights from last season, and what that might teach us for next season. Today we will start with the sexiest of the fantasy categories: goals. Goals per Game Taking a player's goals per 90 minutes and extrapolating over 38 games gives some interesting names to note, who quietly had exceptional seasons and would have delivered great fantasy value if you knew when to pick and choose your spots. The number of goals each player would have scored if playing every minute of every game is below: Robin van Persie - 35 Dimitar Berbatov - 33 Javier Hernandez - 30 Carlos Tevez - 29 Demba Ba - 26 Steve Fletcher - 25 Daniel Sturridge - 24 Salomon Kalou - 22 Roman Pavlyuchenko - 22 Andy Carroll - 21 Jermaine Beckford - 21 Rafael v...

Welcome back everyone. It seems like just a couple of weeks since the United players were lofting the Premier League trophy up high - before most of them signed for Sunderland that is. This site has been quiet since then I didn't even get a chance to chip in with my end of season thoughts as I have been re-working my data to try and setup better predictive tools for next season. In the meantime I have an exciting opportunity involving a new fantasy game - SimPrem . I have long speculated on the creation of a draft style game in which each player can only be owned by a single team and the boys over at SP have delivered in a major way. The rules are fairly complex compared to the PremierLeague.com game but they are intuitive and once you understand them, they should make the game very interesting to play. John and Doug are currently welcoming new entrants to the league so I thought I'd put it out there for any readers who are keen to try something new and can commit...